TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Last year, OpenAI announced the OpenAI Startup Fund , a tranche through which it and its partners, including Microsoft, are investing in early-stage AI companies tackling major problems. Mum’s been the word since on which companies have received infusions from the Fund. But today, the OpenAI Startup Fund revealed that it led a $23.5 million investment in Mem , a work-focused app that taps AI to automatically organize notes.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

How about a slowly growing solopreneurship with no profit, funding, or exit strategy? Let’s see where this goes. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Credit card penetration in Egypt is low, with just over 4 million cards used in a population of more than 100 million people. As such, people in the country have little or no access to credit, given the other few options that exist in the market. One of these options, consumer loans, is being explored by Blnk , a fintech launched last October. The digital lending platform partners with Egyptian merchants, allowing them to underwrite customers at the point of sale and provide them with finance to

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

4 hard lessons learned in entrepreneurship Image: Unsplash No one likes to talk about the time they failed. And for the longest time, I was one of those people. My failure affected my confidence, permanently altered my outlook on life, and left me second-guessing every decision I subsequently made. That’s not something anyone would like broadcasted in public.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Tech reporting is a lot of things, but it sure ain’t boring, as the chaos around Twitter, crypto, and layoffs continues. We’re just trying to hang on for dear life to try to make some sense of it all. We think we did a pretty decent job, and here, we’ve got a selection of what’s been happening in the past 24 hours of tech. — Christine and Haje.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Crypto is not having a good week, as Bitcoin crashed to under $17,000 — its lowest level in two years. The stock market continues to post declines as layoffs abound. Meanwhile, inflation recently reached a 40-year high. For those looking for a safe place to park their cash and actually earn a decent amount of interest on their savings above the national average APY of just 0.20% , the options are not exactly plentiful.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Learn from the founder of Leaf Logistics Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Welcome to the Entrepreneur’s Handbook Podcast, where we share inspiring startup stories and practical takeaways for you, the listener. Today we welcome logistics expert and founder Anshu Prasad onto the podcast. Anshu is the CEO and co-founder of Leaf Logistics. They started five and a half years ago and managed over a hundred million in transportation, and they’re just getting started!

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

A startup that wants to democratize data in the enterprise? That may sound awfully familiar, but Directus , which is announcing a $7 million Series A round led by True Ventures today, is taking a different approach to most of its competitors by combining traditional developer tools with a no-code approach to offer a highly flexible open-source data platform for its enterprise users.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

B&R enhances its smart camera portfolio with powerful deep learning functionality. A three-way collaboration with machine vision software specialist MVTec and AI processor specialist Hailo makes the B&R camera a powerful and efficient edge device. Read more here. The post [Hailo in My Tech Cafe] B&R cameras with AI-enhanced machine vision appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Vincent Aiello. Contributor. Spencer Fane attorney and business owner Vincent Aiello helps businesses solve legal problems to secure revenue flow and reduce business risks. Whoever said you can’t have your cake and eat it too should have called their accountants and lawyers first. These professionals often receive inquiries from founders, equity investment firms and venture capitalists looking for ways to save on or avoid capital gains taxes on future business sales.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Cofounders Aviv Wolff and Ori Cohavi of Remilk, a global leader in the development and production of animal-free dairy, joined innovators, thought leaders and diplomats from around the globe at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt this week. The cofounders had an opportunity to showcase the transformative potential of Remilk’s patented animal-free protein which enables the production of deli

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

There are a lot of changes afoot for SpringTime Ventures as it looks to deploy its freshly closed second fund. For one, the Denver-based firm is pivoting away from its original focus on its home state of Colorado, despite being the only local fund in two of the state’s 10 unicorn companies. It’s also now able to expand its team thanks to raising three times as much money for Fund II, giving SpringTime enough cash on hand to allow its partners to finally pay themselves a real salary.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

NEW YORK, Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — TechSee today announced a technology partnership with TELUS International, a leading digital customer experience (CX) innovator that designs, builds, and delivers next-generation solutions, including artificial intelligence (AI) and content moderation, for global and disruptive brands. This partnership will bring TechSee’s suite of AI-powered service automation and visual engagement products to TELUS International’s customer portfolio.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

While the world digests the fact that FTX could be heading to zero , Elon Musk continues to make headlines with changes to Twitter policy — at times seemingly on the fly — and results from the U.S. midterm elections still trickling in, there could be some fair winds blowing for tech companies. This morning, the United States released new inflation numbers, with CNBC reporting that the consumer price index, or CPI, was up 0.4% in October and up 7.7% from the same month one year ago.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Let’s compare the organizational design of two hypothetical startups. Each has 4 layers in the company: CEO, VP/Director, Manager & Individual Contributor (IC). This first company has 112 employees across those four levels. 27 in management & 85 doers. Each manager has four reports. This is called the span of control. Layer 1 is the CEO, 2 are the VPs, etc.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Amagi, which offers cloud broadcast and targeted advertising software to scores of media and entertainment giants, has raised a large new funding round as it looks to expand its tech offerings and invest in AI-powered personalization stack. General Atlantic led a new round of over $100 million, which included about $20 million in secondary buybacks, the New York and Bengaluru-headquartered startup said in a statement.

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Feedough

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Be it a big retail store like Walmart, an amusement. Read more. The post What Is A Brochure? – Types, Uses, & Examples appeared first on Feedough.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

One of the most popular activities at a TechCrunch conference is watching top-notch early-stage founders square off in a pitch competition. Seriously, who doesn’t love a pitch-off? And the Crypto Pitch-off is just one more compelling reason to go to TechCrunch Sessions: Crypto on November 17 in Miami. Let’s take a look at the judges our intrepid startups will need to impress.

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Feedough

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

A product witnesses several stages of development before it is. Read more. The post What Is Open Beta? – A Detailed Guide appeared first on Feedough.

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Terkel Small Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

How To Get The Most From Exhibiting at a Conference How do you make a booth stand out at a conference? Here are 10 ways leaders get the most from exhibiting at a conference: Listen More Than You Speak Go Above and Beyond With Your Follow Up Using Cutting Edge Augmented Reality to Stand Out […]. The post How do you exhibit successfully at a conference?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

With the explosive adoption of software-as-a-service (SaaS) apps, the average company now has more than 100 SaaS apps to manage — leading to data being siloed across countless different systems. That makes analysis challenging. To wit, according to Forrester, between 60% and 73% of all data within an enterprise goes unused for analytics. Ideally, analysts need something that connects disparate enterprise systems, like business intelligence and analytics tools.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

If you were interested in quickly launching a startup, here’s an easy formula for finding product market fit. First, identify an existing product in an industry with a low NPS (like most financial services) that has not traditionally been sold … The post Escaping Hell’s Flywheel: Building Non-inflationary Distribution Channels appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Mental health problems — and the tech products which aim at them — come in all shapes and sizes. There are “mental wellness” products like Calm and Headspace. On the more severe side of things there is Cerebral, Betterhelp and, of course, marketplaces for actual, card-carrying therapists. If you have more moderate mental health problems there are players such as Noom (raised $657.3 million) with NoomMood , Nasdaq-listed Talkspace , Lasting and Youper (raised $3.5 million)

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OkDork

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify. In today’s episode, I talk to Paul Orfalea, founder of legendary Kinko’s. If you guys haven’t heard of Kinko’s before, it was a HUGLELY popular place for making copies, faxes, and more in the late 90s. Paul ran the company for 30 years. And at its peak, Kinko’s had more than 1,000 locations worldwide.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Syneroid recently raised a $500,000 round of funding to bring something halfway between microchips and dog collars to market. The company is finding some interesting slices of the market, but the deck, overall, leaves a few things to be desired. We learn more from mistakes than from perfection, so I figured it’d be a great one to dive into for this week’s pitch deck teardown!

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